Jurassic World review – nice dinosaurs,

shame about the plot

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/14/jurassic-world-review-dinosaurs-jurassic-park

The trailer for this late dinosaur sequel shows a massive mosasaurus swallowing a
dangling shark whole. The cheeky implication is clear: Jurassic World could eat Jaws for
breakfast. Certainly, this cinematic theme park ride is bigger, louder, and has more teeth than
either Jaws or Jurassic Park. It gains in size, but it loses in terms of dramatic logic and, more
importantly, character chemistry.

Not learning anything from the previous three movies, the owners again find themselves
running an amusement park in which the attractions eat the guests. As Bryce Dallas Howard’s
operations manager struggles to locate her nephews, dino-trainer Chris Pratt attempts to prevent
his dishonest security chief from weaponising the velociraptors with whom he has formed an
interspecies bond.

Emerging from more than a decade of development hell, this clumsy beast of a film is a
mixture from various writers. This complicated evolution has produced a story riddled with big
holes in the plot that a mosasaurus can leap through easily.

On the plus side, Jurassic World doesn’t skimp on spectacle, compensating for its
storytelling shortcomings with an excessive on-screen action. The movie offers a menagerie of
dinosaurs that sweep majestically across land, sea and air. Once again, the velociraptors are the
stars, proving that size isn’t everything. Trevorrow can bring his dinosaurs to life in ways never
before imaginable, but he can’t make us believe in or care about his characters. It has scales but
no soul.

1. What is the text about?

2. What is the different between paragraph 3 and 4? Explain.
3. What does the reviewer think about the movie in general?
4. Write down the generic structure of the text.
5. Find the synonym of following words,
a. massive
b. cheeky
c. gain
d. term
e. previous
f. run
g. attempt
h. clumsy
i. leap
j. shortcoming